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From DANIEL DEFOE
to JOHN BUCHAN
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ISBN: 978-0-141-97928-1
General Introduction
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE BRITISH SHORT STORY
I
DANIEL DEFOE
A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal
JONATHAN SWIFT
Directions to the Footman
HENRY FIELDING
The Female Husband
HANNAH MORE
Betty Brown, the St Giles’s Orange Girl: with Some Account of Mrs Sponge, the Money Lender
MARY LAMB
The Farm House
JAMES HOGG
John Gray o’ Middleholm
JOHN GALT
The Howdie
FREDERICK MARRYAT
South West and by West three-quarters West
WILLIAM THACKERAY
A Little Dinner at Timmins’s
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Six Weeks at Heppenheim
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
WILKIE COLLINS
Mrs Badgery
CHARLES DICKENS
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgings
THOMAS HARDY
The Three Strangers
MARGARET OLIPHANT
The Library Window
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The Body Snatcher
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Silver Blaze
ARTHUR MORRISON
Behind the Shade
‘MRS ERNEST LEVERSON’
Suggestion
EVELYN SHARP
In Dull Brown
T. BARON RUSSELL
A Guardian of the Poor
JOSEPH CONRAD
Amy Foster
H. G. WELLS
The Magic Shop
M. R. JAMES
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
‘SAKI’
The Unrest-Cure
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Honour of Israel Gow
MAX BEERBOHM
Enoch Soames
ARNOLD BENNETT
The Matador of the Five Towns
D. H. LAWRENCE
Daughters of the Vicar
RUDYARD KIPLING
The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat
STACY AUMONIER
The Great Unimpressionable
VIOLA MEYNELL
The Letter
A. E. COPPARD
Olive and Camilla
E. M. DELAFIELD
Holiday Group
DOROTHY EDWARDS
A Country House
JOHN BUCHAN
The King of Ypres
Author Biographies
Acknowledgements
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